Weird News Compilation

[BillTre]

Guy injected Magic Mushroom tea, got sick.

A man brewed a tea from "magic mushrooms" and injected the concoction into his veins; several days later, he ended up at the emergency department with the fungus growing in his blood.

The man spent 22 days in the hospital, with eight of those days in the intensive care unit (ICU), where he received treatment for multisystem organ failure. Now released, he is still being treated with a long-term regimen of antibiotic and antifungal drugs, according to a description of the case published Jan. 11 in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.

By injecting shrooms into his bloodstream, the 30-year-old patient had hoped to relieve symptoms of bipolar disorder and opioid dependence, according to the report. His family members noted that he had recently stopped adhering to his prescribed bipolar medications and was "cycling between depressive and manic states."

 

[mfb]

For people who think the intensive care units are too empty these days.

 

[sysprog]

For people who think the intensive care units are too empty these days.

Is surjection safer than injection?

 

[sysprog]

@Keith_McClary, in response to your giving my questioning post a 'skeptical' reaction, I offer the following: I asked @mfb whether surjection was safer than injection $-$ surjection may be exploitative of the fact of the toroidalic homeomorphicity thereto of the alimentary canal $-$ eating something puts it in the tube; insufflating something puts it on the surface; injecting something puts it in.

 

[DaveE]

toroidalic homeomorphicity

I don't think those were words before today. Well played sir, well played.

 

[sysprog]

toroidalic homeomorphicity

I don't think those were words before today. Well played sir, well played.

Thanks for the gentleness $-$ shouldn't a 'spherical cow' be more of a donut instead of too much of a basketball? $-$ maybe (due to its ingestion and excretion capabilities, which mean that it has an alimentary canal, and that it's therefore ultimately tubular) it's homeomorphic to a torus rather than to a sphere?

 

[Jarvis323]

There's a new outlet for your frustration that's as easy as picking up your phone.

Just Scream! is a hotline created by elementary school teacher Chris Gollmar.

You can call the number and just scream for as long and as loudly as you want.

There's no one on the other end and numbers aren't saved.
Gollmar said he's gotten 70,000 recordings since launching the hotline.

The hotline will stop accepting calls on January 21. The screams will remain on the website.

https://abc7news.com/screaming-hotline-just-scream-chris-gollmar/9805836/
https://justscream.baby/78394/

 

[fresh_42]

https://abc7news.com/screaming-hotline-just-scream-chris-gollmar/9805836/
https://justscream.baby/78394/

Reminds me of ...

I've read about a Japanese company which at least installed punching bags in a room in their basement, which carried the faces of the bosses for their employees ...

 

[Jarvis323]

Reminds me of ...

It made me think of this for some reason.

Could you imagine having a cardboard cutout of your boss watching over you while you work from home?

 

[mfb]

It made me think of this for some reason.

The dogs know what happens to Keanu Reeve's (character's) dog.

 

[nsaspook]

It made me think of this for some reason.

Could you imagine having a cardboard cutout of your boss watching over you while you work from home?

Or an ex-GF.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ana...tout-ben-affleck-trash-breakup-013828340.html

 

[nsaspook]

After the breakup it's back to hard drinking and donuts.

 

[Jarvis323]

After the breakup it's back to hard drinking and donuts.
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Perhaps it is time to declare a cheer Ben Affleck up day?

Web illustrators Photoshopped Reeves into other sad settings: next to Forrest Gump, surrounded by http://guestofaguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/keanucats.jpg, on the Lost island, in a Lady Gaga video, even next to Stalin and Churchill. Nothing they did seemed to make the actor happy. But maybe this will: Tuesday, June 15, is Cheer Up Keanu Day.

http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1996460,00.html

 

[fresh_42]

And there have been reports mentioned in the newspaper from similar incidents.

The teachers had organized a video conference with the students of the second grade using external software, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Culture in Wiesbaden. A participant with an alleged maiden name dialed in, excluded the teachers from the conference and showed ***

Guess we're not really ready for remote schooling.

 

[Borg]

Not sad - just staying warm. Bernie Sanders mittens picture has been making the rounds.

 

[nsaspook]

Not sad - just staying warm. Bernie Sanders mittens picture has been making the rounds.

 

[fresh_42]

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I hope this is a good omen for the weekend!

 

[fresh_42]

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[etotheipi]

Not sad - just staying warm.

 

[Jarvis323]

 

[mfb]

Costly short squeeze makes Reddit required reading on Wall Street

Plenty of experts have bet against GameStop, so its stock has been dropping over the last few years. But then reddit users decided to buy it, leading to a big short squeeze, multiplying its value by over factor 100 in a year, and a factor 8 in the last week alone. That's the most prominent example, but many other stocks have changed a lot based on reddit discussions, too.

 

[fresh_42]

I don't know whether this counts as weird, or is only weird in my European ears ...

AUSTIN, Texas — While it could be argued that Texas is better positioned than most states, the idea of it actually seceding and becoming an independent nation probably strikes most people as highly unlikely.

Still, it’s a drum some conservative Texas lawmakers have been beating for a long time, and no one louder than Republican state Rep. Kyle Biedermann.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/sa...e-biedermann-files--texas-independence--bill-

... but best of all is his name: 'Biedermann' is a German word with which we describe very strait-laced people, which are especially committed to obey all the rules: legal as well as social rules. It is one step prior to denunciator, i.e. has a very bad connotation. cp. Max Frisch's play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Raisers_(play)

 

[jack action]

is only weird in my European ears

Aren't there similarly weird Europeans? ... Scottish independence, Catalan independence movement
We have at least 2 mainstream independence movements in Canada (Québec, Western provinces).

 

[fresh_42]

Aren't there similarly weird Europeans? ... Scottish independence, Catalan independence movement
We have at least 2 mainstream independence movements in Canada (Québec, Western provinces).

These are all cultural different people, some you may consider as occupied. Do you mean the Texan culture is so different from that of its neighbors? And you can barely speak of an occupation.

 

[jack action]

These are all cultural different people, some you may consider as occupied. Do you mean the Texan culture is so different from that of its neighbors? And you can barely speak of an occupation.

I'm not going to start a discussion on independence with anyone. I live in Québec which had a very strong independence movement for the last 50 years. We are not occupied, we're one of the two provinces who founded Canada! Even better, one of the argument of the 'Wexit' movement is that Québec takes more than its share in the country, and yet, Québec wants to go away!

If you ever meet an independentist Texan (or independentist from anywhere for that matter), I suggest you avoid the subject (Especially telling them they are like the rest of the country).

 

[BillTre]

I don't know whether this counts as weird, or is only weird in my European ears ...

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/sa...e-biedermann-files--texas-independence--bill-

... but best of all is his name: 'Biedermann' is a German word with which we describe very strait-laced people, which are especially committed to obey all the rules: legal as well as social rules. It is one step prior to denunciator, i.e. has a very bad connotation.
cp. Max Frisch's play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Raisers_(play)

These are all cultural different people, some you may consider as occupied. Do you mean the Texan culture is so different from that of its neighbors? And you can barely speak of an occupation.

I don't think its a particularly Texan thing, more of a Sorthern thing, which has secondarially spread to other areas.
The mystique of Southern Succession (leading to the US Civil war) has been carried into the culture of modern times through slogans like "The South will Rise Again" and continued display of CSA iconology.
This would have started out in former CSA (Confederate States of America) states, but would have spread culturally, by migration out of the South after the civil war, and more recently, by dissemination through mass media.
Also, after the Civil War, the South was occupied (reconstruction).
The former slaves (Blacks) in the former CSA states benefited from the situation (reconstruction), but the Southern Whites were not happy.
Many were forced to move out to neigboring and more westerly locations, due to the war trashed economies of the Former CSA states. Thus increasing the spread of their culture/ideas, by taking it with them as they moved.
More recently, mass media has probably increased the mobility of various cultural ideas.

This independent/rebellious/anti-Fed attitude has (in my opinion) become generalized to a tax independence view, WRT the Federal government.
They don't want to send money to the Federal government (whose policies they might disagree with).
This has been a right wing political theme in several states from time to time.
However, many of these states receive more money from the Feds than they send to the Feds in taxes:

map from here.

 

[nsaspook]

I don't think its a particularly Texan thing, more of a Sorthern thing, which has secondarially spread to other areas.
The mystique of Southern Succession (leading to the US Civil war) has been carried into the culture of modern times through slogans like "The South will Rise Again" and continued display of CSA iconology.
This would have started out in former CSA (Confederate States of America) states, but would have spread culturally, by migration out of the South after the civil war, and more recently, by dissemination through mass media.
Also, after the Civil War, the South was occupied (reconstruction).
The former slaves (Blacks) in the former CSA states benefited from the situation (reconstruction), but the Southern Whites were not happy.
Many were forced to move out to neigboring and more westerly locations, due to the war trashed economies of the Former CSA states. Thus increasing the spread of their culture/ideas, by taking it with them as they moved.
More recently, mass media has probably increased the mobility of various cultural ideas.

This independent/rebellious/anti-Fed attitude has (in my opinion) become generalized to a tax independence view, WRT the Federal government.
They don't want to send money to the Federal government (whose policies they might disagree with).
This has been a right wing political theme in several states from time to time.
However, many of these states receive more money from the Feds than they send to the Feds in taxes:

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map from here.

I'm a Texan born in the 50's and educated in Texas culture and history. IMO most Texans don't see themselves as southern or really a part of any modern Southern Succession movement. They are uniquely a past nation state ( “Republic of Texas”, a sovereign nation for nine years) that remains culturally isolated in many ways from the classic south and the US in general. (independent power grid for example)

 

[BillTre]

Sounds about right.
I had a Texan roommate once.

 

[fresh_42]

Another funny add-on: As I once discussed the Texan secession with a friend of mine who has been raised in NM, she mentioned that there is a movement, that in such a case, Austin would plan a secession from TX.

 

[mfb]

Like Scotland and Brexit then?

 

[mfb]

The University of Leicester wants to make all its pure mathematics professors redundant, some other fields are affected as well. People are not happy (surprise) and started a petition against it.

If they want to remove redundant things, they should rename themselves to Lester.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Video tour of Putin's Palace? (You can set the captions to auto-translate.)

 

[mfb]

(You can set the captions to auto-translate.)

Hello this mouse so let's go to the palace in gelendzhik!
residence at the cape of the eater graze putin's palace children's camp year-round

The thread is called "weird news", the auto-translation fits in well.

 

[jack action]

China's new coal power plant capacity in 2020 more than three times rest of world's: study

China put 38.4 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power capacity into operation in 2020, according to new international research, more than three times the amount built elsewhere around the world [...]

Including decommissions, China’s coal-fired fleet capacity rose by a net 29.8 GW in 2020, even as the rest of the world made cuts of 17.2 GW [...]

China approved the construction of a further 36.9 GW of coal-fired capacity last year, three times more than a year earlier, bringing the total under construction to 88.1 GW. It now has 247 GW of coal power under development, enough to supply the whole of Germany.

 

[Rive]

China's new coal power plant capacity ...

The weird part is, that this growth is partially fueled by production fleeing from the high prices of 'greener' energy on the western countries.